Stephen Gordon’s father desperately wanted a son but what he got instead is a daughter who fences and rides like a man, and who falls in love with women. She feels isolated and apart from ‘normal’ people until she meets a young woman during World War I who finally returns her affection. Societal pressure, however, threatens to destroy her happiness. Written by an author who described herself as a ‘congenital invert’ and first published in 1928, this was banned in the UK for obscenity even […]